I was listening recently to Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem and the opening track ‘get innocuous!’, once you get beyond the Kraftwerk, We are the Robots beat and bassline, turns in to a Remain in Light type vocal pastiche, followed by aTom Tom Club rap. Do I like it? Yes! But I am old enough to know the musical references. Being somewhere that plays an old tune that still sounds really good even though younger people do not get it yet is a damn fine club to be in. You obviously appreciate and LISTEN to music, the ‘kids’ will catch up soon, only to be replaced by other people who have no sense of musical history. That is just how it is, people learn.

Is My Life in The Bush of Ghosts responsible for all the terrible ‘mash up’ albums out there (Coldcut and 2 Many DJs excluded), is Another Green World responsible for Enya and other ambient twaddle? Technology plays a part, but influence is equally inportant.

With reference to Never Mind The Bollocks, yes it still sounds good, but it amazes me how tame it sounds. They got on the front page of newspapers through outrage, attitude and obscenity, now you only have to be going out with a model…..am I really this old?

I bet everyone in the Bull’s Head could hear the influence of Byrne & Eno in the bands that followed them so maybe it’s the fate of genuinely innovative artists that the army of people they inspired obscure the originator.